Författaren, dramatikern och konstnären Peter Weiss föddes år 1916 i nuvarande Potsdam i Tyskland och dog i Stockholm 1982. Utöver den monumentala romantrilogin Motståndets estetik kom hans rika produktion från 1940-talet och framåt att omfatta en lång rad dramatiska verk, filmer, prosatext[...]

Modern social sciences have been committed to the improvement of public policy. However, doubts have arisen about the possibility and desirability of a policy-oriented social science. In this book, leading specialists in the field analyse both the development and failings of policy-oriented social s[...]

Arguing forcefully that changing times are a clarion call for new thinking, this book convincingly shows that if humanitarian organizations continue to operate as they have in the past, they will fail to help the very victims whom they try to save. Focusing especially on the emergence of 'new wars,'[...]

Throughout the course of their collaboration, Peter Fischli and David Weiss celebrated the sheer triviality of everyday existence, observing the world with bemused detachment. As this book shows, their often humorous work offers a sustained reflection on the intertwined strands of leisure, productiv[...]

Suddenly This Overview gathers the popular series of more than 350 hand-sculpted, unfired clay figures begun in 1981 by the Swiss artists Peter Fischli (born 1952) and David Weiss (1946-2012)--a masterpiece executed in an entirely unspectacular material. Fischli and Weiss' little figures are arrange[...]